Table 2.

Select Descriptive Characteristics of Neighborhood Type Indicators, Means, and Standard Deviations (in Parentheses)

	Socioeconomic Class				Racial/Ethnic Composition/Heterogeneity				Geography
	Poverty	Median Income (1000s)	<HS Degree	College Degree	NH White	NH Black	Hispanic	Foreign Born	Urban
Neighborhood type a
Upper-Middle-Class White Suburb [18.3%]	0.046	42.928	0.120	0.386	0.912	0.038	0.028	0.042	0.770
	(0.027)	(12.437)	(0.049)	0.126	0.074	0.057	0.032	0.034	0.381
Middle-Class Hispanic/Asian Suburb [10.4%]	0.075	41.300	0.192	0.320	0.558	0.099	0.185	0.199	0.945
	(0.039)	(9.327)	(0.079)	0.118	0.190	0.161	0.114	0.141	0.210
Working-Class White Rural [11.1%]	0.140	25.666	0.306	0.157	0.952	0.022	0.018	0.013	0.193
	(0.083)	(6.584)	(0.103)	0.062	0.050	0.037	0.032	0.012	0.365
Poor Black Urban [12.1%]	0.391	14.968	0.467	0.096	0.124	0.807	0.060	0.048	0.999
	(0.135)	(5.538)	(0.089)	0.042	0.194	0.218	0.091	0.083	0.007
Poor Black Rural [4.4%]	0.275	19.449	0.377	0.153	0.529	0.448	0.016	0.013	0.148
	(0.118)	(6.123)	(0.120)	0.085	0.217	0.227	0.029	0.020	0.330
Poor White Urban [8.0%]	0.162	22.911	0.256	0.221	0.906	0.039	0.034	0.035	0.986
	(0.104)	(5.145)	(0.111)	0.143	0.070	0.041	0.042	0.037	0.106
Working-Class Mixed Race Urban [11.3%]	0.179	27.186	0.331	0.226	0.466	0.200	0.247	0.251	0.999
	(0.068)	(5.997)	(0.106)	0.114	0.235	0.240	0.123	0.137	0.010
Poor Hispanic/Immigrant Urban [8.6%]	0.278	20.838	0.546	0.124	0.177	0.078	0.713	0.437	0.995
	(0.107)	(6.154)	(0.107)	0.063	0.072	0.122	0.163	0.209	0.071
Middle-Class Black Urban [9.1%]	0.151	28.295	0.233	0.269	0.338	0.616	0.030	0.047	0.998
	(0.079)	(6.798)	(0.079)	0.123	0.286	0.303	0.037	0.066	0.013
Mixed-Class White Urban [6.8%]	0.054	38.696	0.257	0.288	0.912	0.012	0.052	0.136	1.000
	(0.031)	(11.984)	(0.092)	0.134	0.047	0.017	0.031	0.072	0.000

^aNumber in [] indicates percentage of study census tracts categorized into each type.

Source: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Wave I (n = 2366 census tracts).